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Slow tech : the perfect antidote to today's digital world : forge, carve, weave, mould, ignite / Peter Ginn ; photographs by Jake Eastham.

by Ginn, Peter (Archaeologist).

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Haynes Publishing ; Haynes North America Inc., 2019.

Alternative lifestyles.

Sustainable living.

9781785216169 (hc.)

152 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

"Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research. Highly readable and hugely practical, the book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Light a fire without matches and cook a meal on it. Weave a basket, build a bread oven in your back garden and brew your own beer. Go camping in the wild, build a shelter, catch fish without a rod, and teach your kids how to knap flint. Whether you decide to try to make your own forge in the garden, carve a wooden spoon, build a dry-stone wall, or process your own salt, you will be reconnecting with your own practical abilities and creative impulses."--From publisher.

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